The Montessori approach is a flexible approach that meets the truest, deepest needs of the universal child and the individual child. When it doesn’t seem to be working, we need to look at the foundation: prepared child, prepared adult, prepared environment (prepared to meet the human needs and tendencies – not requiring a room full of materials). If something is not quite there in one if those, the tripod is not strong. – Jessica Welsh from FB

You must prepare yourself first, before anything else – and that includes all the reading, yes, but it also includes being willing to look honestly at your self, your habits, your responses and reactions, and being willing to change them when needed. Are you able to allow your child the freedom, the mistakes and the exploration as well as to know when to set limits that don’t feel like limits because that is what is needed to develop deep concentration? Are you able to observe with enough objectivity to know when your child’s needs are not being met and what to shift in the environment to meet them? If you can do that, then you’ve got a Montessori environment. – Andy Lulka from FB

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“If the child does not have a model of what listening really means, she will not be able to do it, and will even lose the ability to listen to herself, her inner guidance.”[source]

dewasa beri kepercayaan kepada kebolehan kanak-kanak dan encourage independence while offering any necessary suggestions (since the child is coming to the adult for guidance or at minimum confirmation of the appropriate course of action or confirmation that the child’s words, thoughts, feelings and stories are valid).